It is March Madness time and I’ve entered the office pool. In a couple of weeks that $7 will be lining some one else’s pocket. I have never come close to winning the NCAA Tourney pool. I take that back, I came close 4 years ago when my cubical neighbor didn’t know what to pick so I told him to just go with the highest seed and for the final four take them on the order of their year end poll position. He won! and he gave me $10 for my help.
We also have a Football Bowl pool that I fare much better in, 2 years ago I won and a year ago I finished second. For football the point spread counts, so I have a Excel spreadsheet that generate a random number, which is then used to pick the winner. This past January it failed miserably and I came in dead-last. But that is OK too, because the last place person gets the booby prize of his or her money back.
This year instead of grappling with trying to pick the upsets right in the NCAAs, I went back to that highest seed thing – I’ll let you know.